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Aswin Punathambekar

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Aswin Punathambekar is a Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, and Director of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC). His research and teaching focus on the unfolding impact of globalization and technological change on the workings of media industries and institutions, formations of audiences and publics, and cultural identity and politics. Committed to a transnational and inter-regional approach to understanding media cultures, publics, and politics, he has authored or edited several books including Media Industry Studies (Polity, 2020), Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia (Univ of Michigan Press, 2019), Television at Large in South Asia (Routledge, 2014), From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry (NYU Press, 2013), Global Bollywood (NYU Press, 2008), and a number of peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and essays. He is now completing a co-authored book provisionally titled The Fragile Popular: Media Entertainment and Cultural Citizenship in Digital India (forthcoming, NYU Press).